Vehicle-wheel rim.



BEST AVAILABLE COP R. w. ASHLEY VEHICLE WHEEL HIM.

APPLICATEOH FILED JUNE I7. .916.

Patented May 1, 1917.

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VEHICLE WHEEL RIM.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 11. 1916;

Patented May 1, 1917.

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VEHICLE WHEEL RIM.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 17. 1916. I

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Patented May 1, 1917.

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To all whom it mail concern:

' UNITED STATES P TENT OFFICE.

ROBERT W. ASHLEY, OF NEW YORK" N. Y., ASSIGNOR or ONE-HALF T0 .FRANK OBERKIRGH, or s'r. MARYS, PENNSYLVANIA.

VEHICLE-WHEEL RIM.

Application filed June 17, 1916. Serial No. 104,324.

Be it known that l. Ronnn'r \V. Asnnnr; citizen of the. United States. residing at New York city. in the county oi New York aml State ot' New York. ha \e invented new and useful Improvements in -\'ehicle-Wheel Rims. of which the following is a speci ticm The invention relates to improvements in delnountahle rims for use in connection with motor vehicle wheels.

'lhe ohject ol the invention is the providing of a hase rim or telly hand provided at one edge with a depending reintoreing llange, having mounted therein or formed therein reception locking means. said telly hand lTeiug arranged to'reeelre atop or tire" telly band.

A ,further object of the invention is the providing of a top or tire-carrying rim. wherein the locking means, which forms part thereof, acts as traction means to prevent the circumferential movement of the top rim on the telly band, eachone of: a

series of said locking means acting not only as independent locking means. but independent contraetive traction means.

In the following is described in connection with the accompanying drawings one cmhodiment of the invention, the features thereof being more particularly pointed out hereinafter in the claims.

In the drawings'Figure 1 1s a cross-sectional view of a folly band or base rim. having mounted thereon the clencher type of top rim carrying the contractive locking and traction means; Fig. 2 is a detailed crosssectional view of the folly hand illustrating one form of reception locking aperture and the lockin bolt or set screw for locking the top rim t ereto: Fig. 8 is a detailed crosssectional view of the folly band and top rim at a oint adjacent the locking means thereof, s owing the initial or primary pos1t 1o n of'the relative rim parts before the l.ook 1n thereto; Fig. 4 is a detalle Specification of Letters Patent.

locking cleats on a top rim showing the rela- -mounted in said apertures. by means of inin'Fignll illustrating the relative position with the relative'locking. positions of showing the position of same when locked at oneot the points of locking; Fig. 5 IS a detailed side elevation of the top rim, showing the relative position thereof at one of i the locking points adjacent the valve stem carried by a tire forming"part of a pneulnatic wheel structure. Fig. 6 is a detailed view of the under side of the top rim showing'the relative. position of the traction eleat or locking means thereon; Fig. 7 is a face elevation of a woodtelly hand having applied thereto a base rim having punched in the depending flange thereof a series of hosses adapted to receive and engage the tive position of the apertures in said bosses for receiving the locking holt: Fig. 8 is a de- I tailed .side elevation of a modified form of fellv hand illustrating an added means of cutting away the depending flange in order to leave depending faces 'at points adjacent the reception locking means; Fig. 9 is a side elevation of a wheel illustrating the position thereon of the telly hand and'the split form of top or tire-earrving rim. Fig. 10 is a detailed side elevation of a top rim illustrat ing the relative position of same with relation to the telly hand at the point of locking the top rim to said any band by the trac ti'on locking eleat: Fig. 11 is a detailedside elevation of a vehicle wheel having mountedthereon a demountable rim base or telly hand provided with a depending flange having punched therein apertures. and having sorting them from the rear. a series of hardened steel nuts provided with apertures adapted to receive the locking clips carried by a top or tire-carryingrim. Fig. 12 is a cr0ss-secti0nal view of the structure shown thereon of the top or tirekparrying rim and.

said" annular bodies, and Fig.1? is a time; perspective view of the base'rim parts heirs; shown in cross-sectional view at apointa jacent the punched aperture in the depen ing flange thereof showing, "with relation v thereto, the hardened steel nut insert and.

-with the relative position, in said view, of 1105 the aperture to receivethe loekin'gbolt, thewalls of the dependin flange beingtapered both at the top and ottom to receive the locking cleats on the top or tire-carry ng Similar numerals of reference indicate similar parts throughout the several views.

In the drawings (1) designates a wood felly, having mounted thereon a felly band (2) provided at its rear edge with a seating reception shoulder (3) and at its. front edge with a depending flange (4) having punched therein at regular intervals in its annular surface a series of bosses (5) provided with tapered reception surfaces (6) and an internally threaded aperture (7).

(8) indicates a top or tire-carrying rim provided at its edges with tire reception beads (9) of the clencher type and may be an integral rim or it may be a rim lit transversely thereof at one point thereo as at (10) and provided with suitable'lockting means beneath said split as at (11). Said top rim (8) has rigidly mounted in its under surface. by means of spot welds or rivets, traction. locking cleats (12) provided with outwardly depending faces (13) hav* ing cut therein an aperture (14;) and having formed on their lower edges hooks (15). (16) indicates the standard form of locking bolt or set screw (16) arranged to pass through aperture (14) in cleats 12 and to engage the internally threaded aperture (7) in boss (5). By turning the bolt (16) in aperture (7) and by reason of the engagement of the standard hexagonal head of the bolt (16) and by further reason of the engagement of the tapered surface (6) by hook (15), the action of same, when tightened, will cause the top or tire-carrying rim 8) to contact inwardly at each respective point of locking around its annular surface, thereby seating the top rim (8) on the seating shoulder (3) at the rear edge thereof and upon the under faces of locking cleats (12) at the front edge of the base rim or felly band. i

Heretofore other types of rims have seated symmetrically at only one edge of the rim and usually that edge was the rear edge of the rim, but in this type of structure the actual forced and lock seating of the top rim is on the front edge of the felly band or at a point where such engagement and locking is absolutely necessary in orderto prevent squealring, and both lateral movement and annular or circumferential mover meat of the top rim on the folly band.

In Fig. 11 of the drawings the felly band I7) is mounted in any suitable manner on wooden telly (18) and has formed therein at its rear edge a seating shoulder (19) and at its front edge :1 depending flange (20) punched out as at (21) and leaving wclincd surfaces, into which is inserted a hardened steel nut ('32) provided with the threaded aperture (23) adapted to receive .a suitable set screw or locking bolt. By punching the .wly of flange (20) out in the manner as own and described, tapered edges (24),

heads (27)" andlh'as integrally or fastened thereto at its front ed at the-topand (25) atthe'bottom-are provided, which receive" thelocking traction" cleats. Top or tire-carrying rim (26) has formed thereon at, both edges thereof tire y 13113 traction cleats (28) provided wit an abutment in surface (29) arranged to engage/the edge of felly band (17) and a depending face portion (30) provided at its lower en with a hook (31) arranged for engagement with the beveled surface (25) of depending flange (20). Cleats (28) have formed therein apertures threaded locking bolts or set screws (32) the threaded ends of which enga e the inter-1 nally threaded aperture (23) m nuts (22).

v (31) through which pass Nut (22) may be case hardened in order to prevent rupture and may be either inserted m the aperture caused by the pane of the flange 20) loosely or it may be I ded therein'ns' eslred. Thelocking bolts (16) and (32) in both instances are of the standard type of threaded bolt with ordinary type of hexagonal head" and in case of the loss ofsam'c may be readily replaced;

Thejstructuie as sliown and described is one wherein the top or tire-carrying rims (8) and (26) form an actual part of the structure as a wheel sincethe annular bodies thereof are not separable from one another, owing to the fact that thetopzor tire-carry ing rim actually carries the demountable rim locking traction means and therefore the structure asdescnbed must necessarily be read as a component part Since either one of the annular bodies is not divisible from another, as if one were divided from the'other,

it would not form a" complete structure; owing to the fact that the folly band is the locking reception means and further that the top or tire-carrying rim is both the lockingretaining means as well as the locking traction means. I

Any type of top rim may bcemployul in connection with this structure, either a rim split transverselyof its surface at a single point and locked at that point, or an integral top band may be employed as cilhcr one will worksuccessfully on thistype of compound rim structure. z i

It is obvious that the device as herein shown and described maybe varied in many of its structuralfeatures, as ll as with the ceive locking reception means, tl|cwallso13o -ing arranged to receive a tireearrying rim,

having integrally mounted on the under surface thereof at one edge a plurality of locking traction cleats provided Wit means engaging the walls of said apertures, said lock ng traction cleats being provided with means for engaging said reception locking "surfaces on and ad aCent said apertures and belng also provided with abutment surfaces for engagement with said felly band, and means engaging said locking traction cleats and said first mentioned locking reception means for exerting upon said tire-carrying rim a contractive action to seat same annularly around the periphery of said felly band at both of the respective edges of said felly band.

2. A device of the character described comprising a felly band having formed at one edge a reception seating shoulder and at its front edge with a depending flange hit-V111,; punched therein apertures, reception locking nuts mounted 111 said apertures,

tapered locking surfaces formed on the Walls adjacent said apertures, said felly band he ing arranged to receive a top rim having rigidly mounted at its front edge on its under surface thereof a plurality of traction locking. cleats provided at their lower ends with hooks engaging the tapered surface of the Walls of said apertures and arranged with abutment surfaces engaging the edge of said felly band and having formed therein apertures, and a plurality of locking bolts mounted in said reception locking nuts and engaging said locking traction cleats adapted-to exert upon said top rim when brought into engagement a eontractive seating action to seat said top rim on said reception seating shoulder and upon the under surfaces of said plurality of locking traction cleats on the front peripheral edge of said felly band.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of two sub-- scribing witnesses.

ROBERT W. ASHLEY.

In the presence of E. \V. ASHLEY, C. S... ASHLEY. 

